Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent. The eleven goat-hair curtains are divided five and six rather than five and five. The extra curtain is folded double at the tabernacle's entrance — creating extra thickness at the doorway, the point of transition from outside to inside. The entrance is given additional covering: the boundary between the holy and the ordinary is marked with doubled fabric. The entrance to the sanctuary has always been the most theologically significant threshold — the veil, the gate, the door — and the folded double curtain at the entrance is the outer expression of that theological emphasis.

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